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Jamie Leigh

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+1 415 693 2190
jleigh@cooley.com

Jamie Leigh is a member of Cooley's business department leadership team and co-chair of the firm's M&A group. Her representative tech clients include Uber, Tableau, Workday, Dropbox, Automattic, Levi Strauss & Co., Procore, Ellie Mae, Opendoor, Looker, Checkr and MINDBODY. Representative life sciences clients include Medivation, Kite Pharma, Abaxis, Dova Pharmaceuticals, Adamas, CDL and Intarcia. Representative investment banking clients include Qatalyst Partners and Morgan Stanley.

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Experience

  • Function of Beauty Secures $150 Million Investment from L Catterton 

  • Twilio Agrees to Acquire Segment for $3.2 Billion 

  • Fastly Agrees to Acquire Signal Sciences for $775 Million 

  • Principia Biopharma Agrees to Sell to Sanofi for Approximately $3.68 Billion 

  • Sunrun to Acquire Vivint Solar for Enterprise Value of $3.2 Billion 

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Practices & Industries
Passions

    Seahawks football

    Flat water paddle boarding

Education

  • University of Virginia School of Law
    JD, 2002

  • University of Virginia
    BA, 1998

Admissions & Credentials

California

New York

Media & Insight
Memberships

  • Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy - Advisory Board

  • American Bar Association

Rankings & Accolades

    The Deal: Dealmaker of the Year Finalist (2019)

    The Deal: Women in M&A – The Powerhouse 20

    The Recorder: Trusted Adviser 

    The Recorder: Women Leaders in Tech Law 

    Legal 500 US 2016-2020 Editions: M&A/corporate and commercial – M&A: middle-market 

    National Law Journal: M&A/Antitrust Trailblazer

The Deal Podcast

Jamie discusses her career path, advising tech and life sciences companies, her work for MIRROR on its agreement to sell to Lululemon and more

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Contact

+1 415 693 2190 office
+1 415 693 2222 fax
jleigh@cooley.com

101 California Street
5th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94111-5800

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